Inter-observer agreement among specialists in the diagnosis of oral potentially malignant disorders and oral cancer using store-and-forward technology.

Objectives: Oral cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Screening and mobile Health (mHealth)-based approach facilitates early detection remotely in a resource-limited settings. Recent advances in eHealth technology have enabled remote monitoring and triage to detect oral cancer in its early stages.

An Establishment of Various Cephalometric Parameters in an Urban Setup in Odisha and Linking it with the Discernment of Pleasant Profiles by Lay Persons.

Aim: To evaluate cephalometric parameters of orthodontic population in an urban setup in Odisha using Steiner's, Tweed's and Rakosi's analysis and compare it with the established Caucasian norms.

Methodology: Pre-treatment patient records from a dental hospital were collected. Lateral cephalograms of the normal and supernormal sample were traced.

Radio-guided Minimally Invasive Parathyroidectomy: A Descriptive Report of the Experience from Tertiary Center in Bangalore.

Overview: Minimally invasive parathyroidectomy (MIP) is an accepted surgical procedure for parathyroid adenomas. In the patients with parathyroid adenoma localized by dual phase Tc-Sestamibi scan, a focused approach utilizing the gamma probe intra-operatively helps in ensuring complete resection and avoiding exploration of the other parathyroid glands.

Objective: The aim of the study was to evaluate the performance of radio-guided MIP for parathyroid adenomas detected by dual phase Tc-MIBI preoperatively, without intra-operative parathyroid hormone (ioPTH) monitoring for patients who had evidence of single-gland disease.

Role of prescribers in the level of patient satisfaction: a study in public health care settings.

Aims: To assess the level of patient satisfaction with the various aspects of interaction of the health provider with the patient such as communication, examination and information regarding prescription in the allopathic public health facilities of Lucknow district.

Settings And Design: Public health facilities of Lucknow district, India.

Introduction: Satisfaction in service provision is increasingly being used as a measure of health system performance.

How we choose one over another: predicting trial-by-trial preference decision.

Preference formation is a complex problem as it is subjective, involves emotion, is led by implicit processes, and changes depending on the context even within the same individual. Thus, scientific attempts to predict preference are challenging, yet quite important for basic understanding of human decision making mechanisms, but prediction in a group-average sense has only a limited significance. In this study, we predicted preferential decisions on a trial by trial basis based on brain responses occurring before the individuals made their decisions explicit.

Study on patient satisfaction in the government allopathic health facilities of lucknow district, India.

Background: The outcome of any disease is influenced by the decisions to seek care, timely arrival at appropriate diagnostic and treatment services and the receipt of adequate care from service providers. Satisfaction in service provision is increasingly being used as a measure of health system performance. Satisfaction manifests itself in the distribution, access and utilization of health services.

Client satisfaction with immunization services in urban slums of Lucknow district.

Objective: To assess the satisfaction of parents with the immunization services and its association with their sociodemographic characteristics.

Methods: The study was a part of the coverage evaluation survey conducted using the WHO 30 cluster sampling methodology in the Urban slums of Lucknow district, north India. Analysis for a total of 388 respondents of completely or partially immunized children, was done to assess the level of satisfaction and its determinants.

Assessment of prescription pattern at the public health facilities of Lucknow district.

Objectives: To study the prescription pattern at the different levels of public health facilities of Lucknow district and to assess the average cost of drugs prescribed.

Methods: Multi-stage stratified random sampling was done to select 1625 prescriptions of the patients attending the different level of public health facilities in Lucknow district, from August 2005 to September 2006, which was used for the development of study tools, collection of data and analysis.

Results: The important components of prescription viz.

A study on determinants of immunization coverage among 12-23 months old children in urban slums of Lucknow district, India.

Context: To find out the suitable factors for raising the coverage of immunization.

Aims: To determine the coverage and to identify the various factors of primary immunization.

Settings And Design: Urban slums of Lucknow district.

Advances in insulin sensitizers.

Insulin resistance is the major cause in Non Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (NIDDM). In this review insulin production from beta-cells and action of insulin is briefly described. Any intervention either in the production or action of insulin has been the leading cause of NIDDM.